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The Daily Dispatch: February 14, 1862., [Electronic resource], From Kentucky. (search)
letter from Suffolk, dated to-day, which says that Edenton and Heriford have both been captured. Five gunboats moved slowly to the wharf at Edenton on yesterday, at nine o'clock, and landed their troops. Very soon afterwards fifteen more gunboats arrived. The citizens raised a white flag. Between three and four thousand Federal troops have landed at Edenton. The population of Edenton is about 2,000, and distant from Suffolk about fifty miles. In the afternoon two gunboats went up the Chowan river towards Winton, and several others towards the mouth of the Roanoke. A gentleman who has just arrived from Gatesville, says that 700 horses were landed at Edenton last night, and also that a large number had been landed at Elizabeth City. Hertford, the capital of Perquimans county, was taken by the Federals on yesterday. It has a population of about 1,500. Capt. Goodwin, of the Robson (N. C.) Rip Van Winkles, with fifty-two of his men and seven of the Wise Legion, have rea